Road Trips

Tools for planning a family Road Trip with reviews of the Top 10 USA Road Trips, Europe road trip ideas, routes, itineraries for car travel in the USA, and best road trips with kids and toddlers. Use this widget to check on distance and travel time for your upcoming vacation, and find hotel values at your destination.

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Top 10 Family Road Trips USA

Top 10 Family Road Trips USA

FTF's annual Top 10 Getaways survey highlights classic American road trips offering varied experiences -- from beaches to battlefields -- that families can share. This year, the Top 10 Getaways for Family Travelers awards go to the original family vacation: the road trip.  While families...

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Family at Hertz Counter, Atlanta

Tech Tools Make Car Rentals Easier And Better

Corporate consolidation and price wars have diminished the customer experience with most car rentals, so it’s great to see a company like Hertz devoting attention to family needs. How many of us have waited on interminable rental car lines while our kids topple the luggage and lean on the...

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10 Safety Tips For Winter Road Trips

Ten Safety Tips For Winter Road Trips

Highway safety is a major concern on family road trips, especially in winter when snow and ice can make driving conditions especially treacherous. With the arrival of the winter holidays comes sometimes treacherous -- rainy, icy, snowy -- driving conditions. Driving slowly and carefully is a must...

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Favorite Car Games For The Backseat

Favorite Car Games For The Backseat

Don't pack any electronics for your next road trip. Print out and use these classic, family-fun games to make the next overland trip with restless kids zoom by. It is an unfortunate fact of family car trips: kids, despite most efforts, can become pretty restless while cooped up in the...

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Single Moms Tame The West: Colorado With Kids

Single Moms Tame The West: Colorado With Kids

Two single moms share their tips on how to save money when taking a road trip with active kids to the Wild West of New Mexico and Colorado in a two-part FTF series. Join them as they take a ride on the railroad, hunt for fossils, experience river rafting and explore every step of their route.......

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Single Moms Tame The West: New Mexico With Kids

Single Moms Tame The West: New Mexico With Kids

These adventuring single moms show that museums and monuments aren't just for parents as they take two active boys on a road trip through Colorado and New Mexico. My hair is flying in my eyes, and I can feel the ridiculous grin on my face as I lean precariously over the side of the small red...

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Neuschwanstein Castle by Jeff Wilcox

Germany's Romantic Road

The scenic rural area that lines Germany's so-called Romantic Road provides unusual opportunities for family touring, making it one of Europe's favorite road trips. Just about anyone who has ever traveled to Germany will be familiar with the medieval walled city of Rothenburg ob der...

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Niagara Falls View from Upstate New York

Free Family Fun In New York's Greater Niagara Region

A fun, cheap, scenic alternative to more mainstream road trips - tour western New York state's Jello Museum, farms, minor league games, theme parks and so much more. This summer, when travelers are staying closer to home and spending less on leisure activities, we've discovered that...

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Fresh Snow at Hermit’s Rest, Grand Canyon

Leaving Las Vegas, A Western Road Trip

Our Road Trip:   You may know the slogans; Vegas, Baby Vegas, What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. You may know the sites; the fountains at the Bellagio, The Pirates at Treasure Island, the Lions at the Mirage. You may know the sounds; cars cruising up and down The Strip in...

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Bunker Hill Monument-Boston

Exhilaration Vacation!

Samuel Johnson once said, “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”  My imagination became an exhilarating reality when I traveled to the East Coast. Catharina (a German foreign exchange student...

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